tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post636574458448958244..comments2017-08-17T04:28:33.991-07:00Comments on Surgeonsblog: Off CenterSidney Schwabhttps://plus.google.com/102911997878962637648noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-83756513577341238002007-11-26T07:24:00.000-08:002007-11-26T07:24:00.000-08:00Ach, it's all about the money. Marketing is not al...Ach, it's all about the money. Marketing is not always to patients, sometimes it's directed to funders. Scoring the designation of COE means a more profitable gala fund-raiser.Zagreus Ammonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07237186267904028944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-19501184116998358342007-11-24T07:46:00.000-08:002007-11-24T07:46:00.000-08:00Knowledgeable professionals in health care agree w...Knowledgeable professionals in health care agree with you and desperately want improvements. John and Jane Q Public still remain oblivious to these issues. Until John and Jane suffer personally, they don't see the problem...any thoughts on what can be done to educate the public so they will get behind reform efforts.<BR/>OnehealthproOnehealthprowww.onehealthpro.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-76508655343377887092007-11-23T20:55:00.000-08:002007-11-23T20:55:00.000-08:00I've seen the COE concept come and go in the busin...I've seen the COE concept come and go in the business world - when it goes out of favor its because someone decided the support staff should be physically close to their internal "customers." Then after several years of this someone will decide its more "efficient" to have all the support people in one place so they can share "best practices." Its a roller coaster back and forth between centralization and decentralization.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-28048062237539106922007-11-23T18:06:00.000-08:002007-11-23T18:06:00.000-08:00I've been wondering when you would address this pa...I've been wondering when you would address this particular farce, Dr. Schwab. Having worked in several different hospitals over the last few years, I can say that I've seen "center of excellence" designations given to tiny hospitals with undertrained staff and not much in the way of supplies, because their administration clearly saw the possible advertising benefits from such a certification as their best investment of limited resources, while much larger, better-staffed, better-supplied, higher-volume hospitals in the same city lacked such certification because their administrators and staff had more important things to work on. Patients and insurers don't realize how meaningless all of the objective measures so far discovered are as far as predicting quality of care or outcomes.Alicehttp://cutonthedottedline.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-48566051083477186132007-11-23T13:18:00.000-08:002007-11-23T13:18:00.000-08:00You may just be "saying", but you said it well.You may just be "saying", but you said it well.rlbateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.com